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[Marcus Pittman @ImKingGinger]

Bob Saget was a notoriously vulgar comedian. His fatherly Full House role was often an area of conflict for him.

While everyone tried to roast Bob Saget with equally vulgar jokes, Norm Macdonald roasted him with clean dad jokes. Very few comedians understood what was happening. Bob Saget got it. Other comedians got it. But the crowd didn't. You never heard that because the TV edit added laughter when there was very little, which took away from the hilarious nature of the awkward room.

I'm thankful Comedy Central released this full clip without the fake laughter so we could hear the room and realize just how much of a genius Norm really was.

[Joey Swoll @TheJoeySwoll]

@portilloshotdog Listen, and I don't mean this with any disrespect. I'm a loyal Portillo's customer for almost 30 years but the last few times I bought a beef there was almost no meat on it compared to years past. Portillos is a pride of Chicago and if you haven't already, bring that back please.

[PhunkZua @PhunkZua]

@svrnco 0% of hobbyist musicians who work in finance corporate jobs would agree with this statement. We would happily walk away with mid/high 7 figs.

[PhunkZua @PhunkZua]

@tecmo_sports @AiwithYasir Yeah great question. I ask myself that every day hoping for a housing market correction so I can buy one. But everything just keeps getting more expensive even as productivity increases. Lots of variables. Prices should fall but greed can overpower logic.

[PhunkZua @PhunkZua]

@myfirstmilpod Most people don’t lump sum invest 100k at once. Wouldn’t the annualized returns be different for most people who DCA into the market, esp if you keep DCA’ing after a downturn and buy in at discounted prices?

[PhunkZua @PhunkZua]

@tecmo_sports @AiwithYasir Margin. Companies will get used to the juiced up AI margins and when people can’t afford it, they will continue to try to maintain that unrealistic margin as long as they can. Deflation is the last option until they’re forced to by a depression

[PhunkZua @PhunkZua]

@Goyper62 @deedydas @NathanLazarus3 I imagine it’s something like that. I tried doing this mentally and you can’t use the 0 or 1 in the year without coming up with irregular dates. So you start with year 2345 and move backwards to month and day. I still got it wrong lol

[Autism Capital 🧩 @AutismCapital]

Nothing in this video is replicable. The white boy, the malls, whimsy, absurdist music videos, the 90s, all gone forever. This America no longer exists.

[PhunkZua @PhunkZua]

@Va5Bob60771 @AndrewGash @IamGarebear @carsonight @elonmusk Whats your alternative? Fossil burning combustion engines use the same mechanisms and massive industrial inputs. Then once complete they burn more fossil fuels continuously until their usable life expires. Can we at least appreciate progress even if imperfect

[PhunkZua @PhunkZua]

@minordissent @TheDopaVash @Fren_Fellowship @annakhachiyan Women have worn makeup and gotten plastic surgery for decades. Men have worked out to look more attractive since forever. Calling it hidden alpha is a bit of a stretch. Kardashians are an example that is well known and not disputed. He just took it too far.

[Cassandra Unchained @michaeljburry]

A question I have for $ORCL, $GOOG, $META, $MSFT, $AMZN, $NVDA, $CAT, and all the rest, “When does the spending for AI data center buildout actually end?”
It is consuming all your cash flow, you are borrowing, you are financing in ways you never have, apparently because it is so urgent, because it scales?
But if it scales, when does it end?
Now you are engaging in accounting tricks to hide expense, to protect earnings, as the impact is so severe. You will be tortuously adjusting your earnings in a new and sinister ways.
When does it end?

[PhunkZua @PhunkZua]

@TRHLofficial It was a gaming addiction to a Korean online game apparently, not a gambling one. Harping on gambling addiction is the new engagement tool though so grifters will grift

[PhunkZua @PhunkZua]

@EricJensen70328 @KamSaleh @RichardHanania “Last election”. You don’t know how peaks work do you. If you’re constantly referencing the past, you miss checking the temperature of the present. Same mistake liberals have done for the past 10 years.

[PhunkZua @PhunkZua]

@BCampbell Thank ‘em B

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

Last quarter I rolled out Microsoft Copilot to 4,000 employees.

$30 per seat per month.

$1.4 million annually.

I called it "digital transformation."

The board loved that phrase.

They approved it in eleven minutes.

No one asked what it would actually do.

Including me.

I told everyone it would "10x productivity."

That's not a real number.

But it sounds like one.

HR asked how we'd measure the 10x.

I said we'd "leverage analytics dashboards."

They stopped asking.

Three months later I checked the usage reports.

47 people had opened it.

12 had used it more than once.

One of them was me.

I used it to summarize an email I could have read in 30 seconds.

It took 45 seconds.

Plus the time it took to fix the hallucinations.

But I called it a "pilot success."

Success means the pilot didn't visibly fail.

The CFO asked about ROI.

I showed him a graph.

The graph went up and to the right.

It measured "AI enablement."

I made that metric up.

He nodded approvingly.

We're "AI-enabled" now.

I don't know what that means.

But it's in our investor deck.

A senior developer asked why we didn't use Claude or ChatGPT.

I said we needed "enterprise-grade security."

He asked what that meant.

I said "compliance."

He asked which compliance.

I said "all of them."

He looked skeptical.

I scheduled him for a "career development conversation."

He stopped asking questions.

Microsoft sent a case study team.

They wanted to feature us as a success story.

I told them we "saved 40,000 hours."

I calculated that number by multiplying employees by a number I made up.

They didn't verify it.

They never do.

Now we're on Microsoft's website.

"Global enterprise achieves 40,000 hours of productivity gains with Copilot."

The CEO shared it on LinkedIn.

He got 3,000 likes.

He's never used Copilot.

None of the executives have.

We have an exemption.

"Strategic focus requires minimal digital distraction."

I wrote that policy.

The licenses renew next month.

I'm requesting an expansion.

5,000 more seats.

We haven't used the first 4,000.

But this time we'll "drive adoption."

Adoption means mandatory training.

Training means a 45-minute webinar no one watches.

But completion will be tracked.

Completion is a metric.

Metrics go in dashboards.

Dashboards go in board presentations.

Board presentations get me promoted.

I'll be SVP by Q3.

I still don't know what Copilot does.

But I know what it's for.

It's for showing we're "investing in AI."

Investment means spending.

Spending means commitment.

Commitment means we're serious about the future.

The future is whatever I say it is.

As long as the graph goes up and to the right.

[PhunkZua @PhunkZua]

@RickyRemedy Only reason I would want this wave to happen again is if tech house BPM’s also revert back to 2012 levels of 124. Instead, the new kids just keep listening to faster techno and I slowly age out of the festival scene lol

[PhunkZua @PhunkZua]

@ketchupcourtH @MeghansMole @mymixtapez Why would someone who’s not the father be liable for anything if the test proves otherwise?

[PhunkZua @PhunkZua]

@Aj__416 @LadePlatinum It’s more that it’s not even a Pete Rock drum loop lol. I love PR but this is just chopped James Brown drums. The young gen are so far removed from real hip hop that they credit the drums to Pete Rock and not the OG sources 😂

[PhunkZua @PhunkZua]

@CoineliusX @vysecurity Don’t think this would work cause every time you save a csv, it flattens/bounces/hardcodes all outputs to text so when you reopen, all formulas are gone. One would have click into the cell if PW is parsed correctly to only the PW n hit enter to receive error. I could be wrong tho

[PhunkZua @PhunkZua]

@bgc400 @DefiIgnas lol how am I in a crypto bubble? I’m underexposed in the crypto market so have little skin in the game. I was just wondering in future what if banks and institutions with incentives to preserve fiat obtain quantum tech, protect themselves first, and nuke BTC?